After I left threadless, I spent a bunch of time going to new and different places around the city to meet with people or to find a place with wifi to work. I found that without a defined commute my default bustracker app ( commuting.in , a site I did a while back with Aaron Salmon and Bryan Knight ) wasn’t serving my needs… what I needed what an app that knew where I was and told me the closest bus, that I could then filter by a specific line/direction…
So I wrote one check it out; closebus.com
Over on the cta-tattler, they somehow found out about it (probably from this interview with harper) and wrote a nice article about it. Read that acticle here: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/cta-tattler/2011/03/location-aware-site-tells-you-where-the-closest-bus-is.html
It’s super fun to have some other people using the site, and hopefully it will lead to me getting off my ass to fix some of the bugs I already know about, and overall making it better.